Excel conditional coding

I am trying to use VB coding to change the cell shading based upon text data, entered into cells, in a workbook, for the active sheet. There are 6 conditions.

If somebody has some generic code you can e-mail it to trw2264@hotmail.com

Thanks for any help!

[Derek]

Hi

You could try an event macro something like this:

Right click your sheet tab, left click View Code, then paste in this code. Alt+F11 returns you to your sheet.
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)

If Target.Value = "text1" Then Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 3
If Target.Value = "text2" Then Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 4
If Target.Value = "text3" Then Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 5
If Target.Value = "text4" Then Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 6
If Target.Value = "text5" Then Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 7
If Target.Value = "text6" Then Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 8
End Sub

Change "text1" etc to your text that you want to trigger cell colouring.

Hope this helps
regards
Derek

Thany you very much for your help! I will try it out!

Tom